Looks like Pokémon is still hot!

April 18, 2007

Pre-orders for the upcoming Pokémon® Diamond and Pokémon® Pearl video games for the portable Nintendo DS™ have topped one half million in the United States!

The last two GBA games; Fire Red and Leaf Green, didn’t even have pre-order numbers half of that and they went on to sell 3.4 million copies in North American alone.

Pokémon Diamond and Pokémon Pearl have consistently ranked among the top-selling video game products on Amazon.com, and there are still four days until launch.

Pokémon Diamond and Pearl have already sold millions in Japan and I expect that trend to be duplicated her in North America, and world wide.

Why is Pokémon an unstoppable juggernaut?

  • It’s a great RPG.
  • It’s all about collecting things.
  • Some of the things you collect are rarer than others.
  • Replay is near infinite by starting the game with different team varieties.
  • It encourages sharing because each game has certain Pokémon that are only available in the other game.
  • You can complete the story mode in about 10 hours.
  • They added Wi-Fi!!!
  • You will now be able to battle against anyone in the world who has the same game!

I could go on and on but I’ll stop there and direct you to all of my other Pokémon articles here on the site.

The Official Nintendo Pokémon Diamond and Pearl Player’s Guide also will be available at retail on April 22. For more information about the games, visit www.Pokemon-Games.com



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Comment by Manthem
2007-04-18 09:30:03

They’re still making these?

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Comment by Gregg
2007-04-18 11:37:05

Wow, I’m with Manthem on this one! I didn’t know they were still making the games because I haven’t seen any advertisements lately. I thought pokemon kind of died out a couple years ago…I Guess I was wrong!

I’m not going to lie, I still have all my pokemon cards from 6th grade, in my closet of course. :D

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2007-04-18 12:56:01

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Comment by Andy
2007-04-18 23:14:26

The kids that were watching pokemon aren’t kids anymore … it is amazing many still play their games (because they are good!) :)

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Comment by Zaneosen
2007-07-28 15:13:20

You are a great source of info

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